RSSEx-Corn Husker Coach Tom Osborne To Run For Governor
Tom Osborne, former Nebraska football coach said Saturday he plans to seek the Republican nomination for governor in 2006 .
Osborne, 68, has hinted about seeking the gubernatorial nomination for months, though he said the decision took him more than a year to make. Osborne, who had open heart surgery 20 years ago, said he had a physical and talked with his doctor “to make sure I’d be vertical for the next five years.”
Osborne has parlayed his enormous popularity in the state into a successful political career. After winning three national titles in his last four years at Nebraska, he received 82 percent of the vote in his first run for Congress in 2000, 93 percent in his re-election bid in 2002 and 87 percent last year.
On a personal note I would have hoped that Tom Osborne would have chose a run at the US Senate in 2006; however, with a track record that he has and popularity his run for Governor will be a successful one.
George W. Bush’s Early Christmas Wish List
Maybe Wish-full thinking on the part of the White House. You know how those conservative republican’s are.
Google redraws world according to George Bush
Selig On Steroids: THREE STRIKES AND YOU’RE OUT
Bud Selig, MLB Commissioner, is proposing a new and more firm steroid policy for Major League Baseball. Its would consist of a 50 game ban for first time offenders and a lifetime ban for third time offenders.
ESPN (AP) Baseball commissioner Bud Selig asked players to agree to a 50-game suspension for first-time steroid offenders and a lifetime ban for a third violation under what he called a “three strikes and you are out approach” to doping.
In a letter sent this week to union head Donald Fehr, Selig proposed a 100-game ban for a second offense. He also asked the union to ban amphetamines, to have more frequent random tests and to appoint an independent person to administer the major league drug-testing program.
“Third offenders should be banned permanently. I recognize the need for progressive discipline, but a third-time offender has no place in the game,” Selig wrote to Fehr. “Steroid users cheat the game. After three offenses, they have no place in it.”
It is about time baseball took the steroid issue seriously. The previous policies that were implemented were at best a joke.
Under the rules that began this season, a first offense gets a 10-day suspension, with the penalty increasing to 30 days for a second positive test, 60 days for a third and one year for a fourth. For a fifth positive, the penalty is at the commissioner’s discretion.
Baseball currently has no penalties for amphetamine use by players on 40-man major league rosters. Amphetamines are banned for players under minor league contracts.
The integrity of Major League Baseball, its players and records are all in question that this point. The present day situation within baseball and they records that have fallen should all be questioned. It is obvious to any honest fan of the game that baseball has a serious steroid issue. That in turn is funneled down to the minors, college, high school Nd even middle school as a cheat at any cost in order to win and succeed. It is about time that Bud Selig has taken this issue seriously with its far reaching affects.
“It is my strong opinion that, regardless of whatever incremental progress we may have made under the current agreement, we continue to have a serious integrity issue with regard to our current policy and our great game,” Selig wrote. “Prompt, decisive and dramatic action is needed to address the use of performance- enhancing substances because of the unfairness of such use to the rest of our players who want a level playing field.”
It will be interesting to see how far off the home run rate will be over all in baseball and for individual players. We could institute the “RED” rule that states after the tough steroid policies are put in place, the amount of HR’s players hit will be considered the average that they would have hit over the past 5-8 years. Do you think anyone will be hitting 67 or 70? I do not think so either. On a personal note any HR record either for a season or a career that counts HR’s prior to these steroid policies is not valid. It’s a shame that someone like Hank Aaron may lose his record to tainted home runs.
However, it will be interesting to see the Player’s Union reaction to this harsh and fair policy. Some how I just don’t see them agreeing. Will they do whats right for Baseball, or just its millionaire players?
Hat Tip: OTB
Vermont 2006 Senate Seat Going to the Socialist
Later today Governor James Douglass will announce that he will not run for the open Senate seat in 2006 with the retirement of Jim Jeffords.
Even with this announcement I really see no change in who will win the open Senate seat in VT. As previously posted, VT has just changed too much in the recent future and Independent Socialist Representative is all but a lock to win in Vermont whether Douglass ran or not. I love to play hypothetical what seats can we win with the best of them with my friends at PoliPundit, but this, this and this were never going to happen. It was hinted yesterday in The Boston Globe that Douglass was not going to run. I think Douglass saw what Red has seen in the state that he was born and escaped from. There is no sense in finishing one’s political career off with a loss to Sanders in Liberal Vermont.
Let’s face it when people refer to the state as The Socialists Republic of Vermont, they do so for a reason. Doesn’t it make sense that they would then elect a Socialist Senator? It is a shame that this state with so little population has been over run by the populace of other states moving there.
Hat Tip: PoliPundit
Democrats Embrace Voter Fraud
There can be no more simple way to be the first line of voter fraud than have the present a photo ID to confirm the identity of a voter before casting a ballot. Seems pretty straight forward, simple and a common sense approach, right?
WRONG. Not for Democratic, Wisconsin Governor, “Jim Doyle vetoed a bill Friday that would have required voters to show government-issued picture identification at the polls, saying it would disenfranchise elderly voters.”
Republicans had argued that the bill would help eliminate the potential for fraud during elections, in which registered Wisconsin voters — like those in many states — need only give their name and address to cast ballots.
In true Democratic fashion not only instituting measures that will help prevent voter fraud, but the WI Governor also manages to use the elderly as his rational. Disenfranchise elderly voters? Democrats will use anyone I guess to let voter fraud to continue, to allow dead people to vote and have individuals vote more than once.
These actions coming from the party that are constantly whining that elections were stolen from them because of voter error and the disenfranchisement of democratic voters. Once again Democrats like to demagogy the issue, but never want to fix it. What a novel concept to actually have voters prove who they are before actually casting a ballot in an election. WHAT A RADICAL IDEA.
Under the bill, voters would have needed to present a Wisconsin driver’s license, a non-driver’s ID issued by the Department of Transportation or a military ID at the polls. Without one, they would be able to cast only provisional ballots, which could be counted in a close election or if they proved their identity by the following day.
Jayson at PoliPundit has a great post on the very same issue pointing out the absolute “BS” of the Governor’s reason for the veto. Also brings up some nice Democratic voter fraud that took place in 2004.
To borrow a line from Jason, elections do matter. The people of WI if they are at all serious about voter fraud in their state should vote Governor Doyle out of office at the earliest chance.
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